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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away - an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something that lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What we see is blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. Carl Jung in "Memories, Dreams, Reflections".
| Species | Significance
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Ferns
| Horsetail "scouring rush"
| primitive, major weed
| Giant Salvinia
| primitive, major weed
| Bracken fern
| primitive, one of the oldest, grows everywhere
|
Basal angiosperms
| Spatterdock
| model, Nymphaeales
| Dutchman's pipe
| model, Magnoliid
|
Monocots
| Calamus
| primitive, medicinal
| Aloe
| medicinal
| Quack grass
| advanced, major weed, rhizomes studied
| Johnsongrass
| advanced, major weed
| Bermudagrass
| advanced, major weed
| Giant Miscanthus
| advanced, potential biofuel crop
| Common Reed
| advanced, weed
| Red Rice
| advanced, close relative of cultivated Asian rice
| Cogongrass
| advanced, one of worst weeds
| Ginger
| advanced, medicinal
| Turmeric
| advanced, medicinal
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Eudicots
| Black cohosh
| primitive, medicinal
| Sacred lotus
| primitive, rhizomes studied
|
Core eudicots
| Peppermint
| advanced, culinary and medicinal
| Broad-leaf birdsfoot trefoil
| advanced, model legume, rhizomes studied
| Common monkey-flower
| advanced, important ecological model species
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